

"By the time we get to all that good water down below, it's dark and we're having to paddle 20 miles an hour to get out of here." "You always say we should blow through all this water up here so we can fish all that better water down below," Pruitt said. It only got better, which activated a dilemma that has plagued Pruitt and me for all the years we've been fishing together. Pruitt caught a couple of smallmouths and a few longear sunfish on his fly rod, which restored his good humor." I caught a couple of little smallmouth bass almost immediately. Usually, Pruitt and I fish sparingly until about a quarter mile above confluence of the South Fork of the Caddo, but Lucky's comments made us cast early. "You're a total whack job," Pruitt grumbled. "Man, I haven't had PBR since I was in college," I continued airily. I popped the tab on a cold PBR, took a long swig and groaned a dramatic, contented sigh that seemed to provoke Pruitt's ire. "Well, that's a little different than, 'I don't have any beer and I want some, so get ME some,'" I retorted, tauntingly. "I SAID that I didn't have any beer, and if you wanted some, you needed to get some!" Pruitt repeated. "I said that I didn't have any beer, and if you wanted some, you needed to get some!" "What'd I tell you last night?" Pruitt demanded.

Pruitt only drinks Sierra Nevada India Pale Ale. Pruitt's mood soured immediately when he saw me deposit two cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer in his soft-sided cooler. We had a couple of guys fish it last week, and they caught the 'slam fire' out of them."Ī few minutes later, Lucky's folks deposited Pruitt and I on a gravel bar with an Old Town canoe and all our gear. It's really rough right now, hardly enough water to float, but ain't nobody up there. "I'd do that upper float from Caddo Gap," Lucky said. "Lucky" Thomas, owner of Lucky's Canoe Rental, had the perfect prescription for our smallmouth fever. Hot, humid summer days are always sketchy, especially on rivers that attract scores of tubers and other assorted revelers, but Rusty Pruitt and I had a serious need to feel a tug on the line. Last Sunday might have not have been the best day to chase smallmouth bass on the Caddo River. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Sometimes it takes hard work to find good fishing, but the results are worth the trouble. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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